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  2. Recently, wearable extra robotic limbs that aim to enhance the functionality and capability of human operators as extra arms or fingers have become an active research subject among robotics researchers. Improv...

    Authors: Yaonan Zhu, Takayuki Ito, Tadayoshi Aoyama and Yasuhisa Hasegawa

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2019 6:7

    Content type: Research Article

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  3. This paper proposes a navigation system of a personal mobility robot in informationally structured and unstructured environments. First, we introduce a group of robots named Portable Go, which are equipped wit...

    Authors: Yuuta Watanabe, Akio Shigekane, Kohei Matsumoto, Akihiro Kawamura and Ryo Kurazume

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2019 6:6

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  5. There has been an increasing interest in mobile manipulators that are capable of performing physical work in living spaces worldwide, corresponding to an aging population with declining birth rates with the ex...

    Authors: Takashi Yamamoto, Koji Terada, Akiyoshi Ochiai, Fuminori Saito, Yoshiaki Asahara and Kazuto Murase

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2019 6:4

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  7. Generation of stable and realistic haptic feedback during mid-air gesture interactions have recently garnered significant research interest. However, the limitations of the sensing technologies such as unstabl...

    Authors: Dennis Babu, Masashi Konyo, Hikaru Nagano, Ryunosuke Hamada and Satoshi Tadokoro

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2019 6:2

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  10. We present a facial wearable robot to support eyelid movement for patients with hemifacial paralysis. People with facial paralysis are not able to blink, which leads to dry eyes and could cause permanent damag...

    Authors: Yuta Kozaki, Naoki Matsushiro and Kenji Suzuki

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:30

    Content type: Research Article

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  11. Providing an accurate count of total leukocytes and specific subsets (such as T-cells and B-cells) within small amounts of whole blood is a rather challenging ordeal due to the lack of techniques that enable t...

    Authors: Bilal Turan, Taisuke Masuda, Anas Mohd Noor, Koji Horio, Toshiki I. Saito, Yasuyuki Miyata and Fumihito Arai

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:29

    Content type: Research Article

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  13. Absolute counting of total leukocytes and specific subset (such as T-cells and B-cells) within small amounts of whole blood is difficult due to the lack of techniques that enables separation of leukocytes from...

    Authors: Bilal Turan, Taisuke Masuda, Wu Lei, Anas Mohd Noor, Koji Horio, Toshiki I. Saito, Yasuyuki Miyata and Fumihito Arai

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:27

    Content type: Research Article

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  14. In this paper, we propose two gait strategies for a limb mechanism robot, called ASTERISK, to move on narrow spaces. Specifically, we describe two types of locomotion, namely, vertical-body climbing gait and h...

    Authors: Kenichi Ohara, Takeshi Toda, Kazuto Kamiyama, Masaru Kojima, Mitsuhiro Horade, Yasushi Mae and Tatsuo Arai

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:26

    Content type: Research Article

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  16. An informationally structured environment (ISE) is a key technology for realizing service robots in daily life in the near future. In ISE, the information of the service robot and its surroundings is structure...

    Authors: Junya Sakamoto, Kouhei Kiyoyama, Kohei Matsumoto, Yoonseok Pyo, Akihiro Kawamura and Ryo Kurazume

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:24

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  18. Estimating the distance of a target object from a single image is a challenging task since a large variation in the object appearance makes the regression of the distance difficult. In this paper, to tackle su...

    Authors: Hirotaka Hachiya, Yuki Saito, Kazuma Iteya, Masaya Nomura and Takayuki Nakamura

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:22

    Content type: Research Article

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  19. The motion of the robot to realize assembly work includes the part where the reuse of the motion adjusted for the real objects is effective and the part where automatic generation in the simulator is suitable....

    Authors: Ryo Hanai, Kensuke Harada, Isao Hara and Noriaki Ando

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:21

    Content type: Research Article

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  20. When using a wearable robot, the interaction force applied to the area of contact may cause skin injuries over time. Therefore, validating the contact safety of wearable robots is important for their practical...

    Authors: Yuma Sakai, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Yoji Yamada and Shogo Okamoto

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:20

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  22. This paper addresses a reference gait speed generator for limit-cycle-based bipedal gait of humanoid robots in order to achieve secure and efficient acceleration and deceleration without falling down at respec...

    Authors: Taisuke Kobayashi, Kosuke Sekiyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Tadayoshi Aoyama and Toshio Fukuda

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:18

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  25. In the current study, we tested a prototype of an isokinetic exercise device for the lower limbs, named the ERIK. The ERIK enables a type of single-limb squat exercise with a translational load on the swing le...

    Authors: Ken’ichi Koyanagi, Yoshinori Kimura, Maki Koyanagi, Akio Inoue, Takumi Tamamoto, Kei Sawai, Tatsuo Motoyoshi, Hiroyuki Masuta and Toru Oshima

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:15

    Content type: Research Article

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  27. In recent years, the total number of physical therapists is increasing in Japan. However, it is not sufficient to nurse of patients requiring long-term care. In order to cope with the shortage of manpower, it ...

    Authors: Yudai Kitano, Tsutomu Tanzawa and Kazutaka Yokota

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:13

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  28. Baseball has been enjoyed by many generations and there are many people who play the game. Swing speed increases are generally required to develop ideal batting skill; nevertheless, no study has proposed a sys...

    Authors: Teppei Onishi, Kazuhiro Yasuda, Suguru Kawata and Hiroyasu Iwata

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:12

    Content type: Development Report

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  29. In this paper, we aimed to establish a novel method for surface condition measurement for the indoor floor. To measure the surface condition, we proposed wiping motion that to stroke the target surface with chang...

    Authors: Koichiro Matsumoto and Kimitoshi Yamazaki

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:11

    Content type: Research Article

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  30. Surpassing the world record in athletic performance requires extensive use of kinematic and dynamic motion analyses to develop novel body usage skills and training methods. Performance beyond the current world...

    Authors: Akihiko Murai, Hiroaki Hobara, Satoru Hashizume, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi and Mitsunori Tada

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:10

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  31. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that one of the authors’ name is spelled incorrectly. In this Correction the incorrect and correct author name are shown. The original pu...

    Authors: Abu Ubaidah Shamsudin, Kazunori Ohno, Ryunosuke Hamada, Shotaro Kojima, Thomas Westfechtel, Takahiro Suzuki, Yoshito Okada, Satoshi Tadokoro, Jun Fujita and Hisanori Amano

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:9

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:7

  32. For household humanoid robots, reaching as much workspace as possible with their hands is an important issue because the locations of target objects may range from the floor to above the robot’s head. At the s...

    Authors: Satoki Tsuichihara, Yuya Hakamata, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Jun Takamatsu and Tsukasa Ogasawara

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:8

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  33. The objective of this study was to achieve simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of firefighter robots for petrochemical complexes. Consistency of the SLAM map is important because human operators compa...

    Authors: Abu Ubaidah Shamsudin, Kazunori Ohno, Ryunosuke Hamada, Shotaro Kojima, Thomas Westfechtel, Takahiro Suzuki, Yoshito Okada, Satoshi Tadokoro, Jun Fujita and Hisanori Amano

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:7

    Content type: Research Article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:9

  37. In recent years, there has been great interest in the possibility of using artificial limbs as an extension of the human body as well as replacement of lost limbs. In this paper, we develop a sixth finger syst...

    Authors: Noel Segura Meraz, Masafumi Sobajima, Tadayoshi Aoyama and Yasuhisa Hasegawa

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:3

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  38. How to improve task performance and how to control a robot in extreme environments when just a few sensors can be used to obtain environmental information are two of the problems for disaster response robots (...

    Authors: Kui Chen, Mitsuhiro Kamezaki, Takahiro Katano, Taisei Kaneko, Kohga Azuma, Tatsuzo Ishida, Masatoshi Seki, Ken Ichiryu and Shigeki Sugano

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:2

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  39. This paper describes a method to pick up a folded cloth product by a single-armed robot. We focus on a problem on picking up a folded cloth, and organize tasks to attack it. Then, we propose methods of grasp p...

    Authors: Yusuke Moriya, Daisuke Tanaka, Kimitoshi Yamazaki and Keisuke Takeshita

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2018 5:1

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  41. In this paper, a concept of frame-by-frame intermittent tracking to achieve motion-blur-free and high-brightness images when video shooting fast moving scenes is proposed. In our tracking concept, two control ...

    Authors: Michiaki Inoue, Mingjun Jiang, Yuji Matsumoto, Takeshi Takaki and Idaku Ishii

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2017 4:28

    Content type: Research article

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  42. Odometry is widely used to localize wheeled and tracked vehicles because of its simplicity and continuity. Odometric calculations integrate the wheel or track’s rotation speed. The accuracy of position thus ca...

    Authors: Genki Yamauchi, Keiji Nagatani, Takeshi Hashimoto and Kenichi Fujino

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2017 4:27

    Content type: Research article

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  43. Weight-shift training during stroke rehabilitation requires patient effort, potentially causing leg spasticity and anxiety, which disturb motor learning. The purpose of this study was (1) to devise an implicit...

    Authors: Kazuhiro Yasuda, Kenta Saichi, Yu Kitaji, Hiroaki Harashima and Hiroyasu Iwata

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2017 4:26

    Content type: Development Report

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  44. This paper reports an improvement of the particle-excitation flow control valve. The valve that we have designed in previous reports can control air flow, using particle excitation by piezoelectric resonance, ...

    Authors: Daisuke Hirooka, Tomomi Yamaguchi, Naomichi Furushiro, Koichi Suzumori and Takefumi Kanda

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2017 4:25

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  46. Surface wettability is one of most important indexes for understanding the interfacial characteristics between a solid surface and a liquid, especially such physico-chemical properties as hydrophilicity and wa...

    Authors: Nobuyuki Tanaka, Yoshihide Haruzono, Hiromitsu Nasu, Yuki Nakanishi, Junko Takahara, Akane Awazu and Yo Tanaka

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2017 4:21

    Content type: Development Report

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  47. This paper presents a remote radioactive seed-loading device for permanent brachytherapy of oral cancer with Au-198 grains to reduce the exposure dose to the doctors. Permanent brachytherapy is a treatment whi...

    Authors: Mukau Sato, Yukari Saito, Toshio Takayama, Toru Omata, Hiroshi Watanabe, Ryoichi Yoshimura and Masahiko Miura

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2017 4:23

    Content type: Research article

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  48. 3D visual mapping of the seafloor has found applications ranging from environment monitoring and survey of marine minerals to underwater archaeology and inspection of modern artificial structures. However, the...

    Authors: Adrian Bodenmann, Blair Thornton, Ryota Nakajima and Tamaki Ura

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2017 4:22

    Content type: Research article

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  50. In this study, we set out to develop a method for estimating the fine and fast shear deformation of a finger pad, that is, the palm side of a fingertip, as it scans the surface of a material. Using a miniature...

    Authors: Shunsuke Sato, Shogo Okamoto, Yoichiro Matsuura and Yoji Yamada

    Citation: ROBOMECH Journal 2017 4:19

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